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| Web Pages |
| Vischeck |
| See the world as color blind people see it. Also simulates the effects of distance and different monitor types. |
| Umist Eye System |
| Extensive colour vision test from the UK. |
| Ask A Biologist |
| Color tests for eyes with or without the condition. |
| HealthLink MCW |
| An article about the severity of this ailment. |
| Appearance: Colorblindness |
| How things look to someone who is colorblind. Overview of tests and genetics. |
| Creamer Color Chart |
| Screening test for the early detection of red-green colorblindness in children. |
| Ishihara Test for Color Blindness |
| Tests for color blindness. |
| Colour Vision Testing |
| Leading UK colour vision consultant offers tests for education, careers, employment and safety-related professions. |
| Colorblindness information page |
| Includes an Ishihara plate, information from those disabled and their relatives, and links to media articles. Names of colors appear in the color. |
| Color Blindness |
| Professional information on color blindness, related conditions and tests. Concludes that "No treatment is available for any form of inherited color vision deficiency." |
| Colorblindness prosthesis, per CNN |
| Describes optometrist and lenses he invented to "improve his red-green colorblindness" |
| FDA talk paper |
| U.S. Department position on 'colormax' lenses to ameliorate red-green color deficiency. |
| Colorblindness and . . .Types |
| Explains mechanics and physiology, and includes color wheels to simulate what the disabled see. |
| No Laughing Matter |
| Page at humor site has some facts, shock language, and deceptive links. |
| Color Blindness: Treatment |
| Paragraph may trigger pop-ups. Links to test plate or poster sales, and information on the X-Chrom lens. |
| The X-Chrom lens: a case study |
| Paragraph from Australian Optometrists Association describing patient fitted with a color contact. |
| Ophthalmology Times: ColorMax gets patents for X-Chrom |
| Trade paper announcement of new colored contact lens patent owner. |
| Information & Products |
| Addresses and links for makers and sellers of products to accomodate color vision problems. |
| Chromagen Tinted Soft Contact Lens |
| "FDA cleared" product to help the color blind and dyslexic. FAQs, testiomonials, vision centers (one in the USA). |
| When Is a Disabled Employee Qualified? |
| Shannon v. NY Transit Auth., was a bus driver whose employer found he was color-blind. Considers disability under the (US) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
| CVRL Color & Vision database |
| an annotated library of downloads for color and vision research. Color Vision Research Laboratory information is primarily scientific and technical. |
| International Colour Vision Society |
| physiologists, psychologists, physicists, geneticists, optometrists, ophthalmologists and others who have a research interest in colour vision or deficiency |
| Job-Hunting for the So-Called Handicapped or People Who Have Disabilities |
| Page to sell paperback by Richard Nelson Bolles (author of the extremely popular job-hunting book, What Color is Your Parachute?) |
| Red-green color blindness in humans |
| Tutorial from sex-linked inheritance problem set provides college-level explaination. Includes graphics |
| Colorblind |
| Information on color blindness. Links include tests to determine color deficiency. |
| Medical College develops genetic test for colorblindness |
| Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Journal Sentinel story of test licensed to ColorMax. "A major breakthrough." |
| Applied Biosystems - BioBeat - ABI PRISMŽ 310 Genetic Analyzer Makes Colorblindness Easier to See |
| Promotes machine in analysis of colorblindness. "At present, there is not a diagnostic test to distinguish between hereditary colorblindness and acquired color vision deficiencies." |
| Firelily Designs - Color Vision, Color Deficiency |
| Pictures to approximate what the afflicted see. Article about color problems, causes, and compensation with web design or browser settings. |
| Probers fear co-pilot in FedEx crash is colorblind |
| Associated Press story says officials are investigating color-deficient co-pilot in plane crash. |
| Pseudoisochromatic Plates Comparison Chart |
| Chart compares color vision tests. Links to related information. |
| Drugs affecting color vision |
| Chart lists drugs affecting color vision. Ibuprofen (Advil) makes it worse. |
| Richmond Products |
| Page with links to products to test or mitigate color defects. FAQs & chart of drugs. |
| List of genetic disorders - Wikipedia |
| Entry lists colorblindness as a point mutation in the X chromosome. Links to details. |
| Color blindness - Wikipedia |
| "Free Encyclopedia" entry. Includes (web) design implications. |
| Color blindness |
| Information from Cataract & Laser Institute. Signs & Symptoms, Detection & Diagnosis, Treatment. |
| Disability Advice Centre fact sheet - colour blindness |
| 4-page Royal Mail (UK) pdf about the disability. Includes useful URLs. |
| EyeDropper |
| free program works with Windows to let you know the color of any part a PC screen. Allows removing background images and the adjustment of text to black & white. |
| Colorblindness explained, with new online tests |
| Includes chart, tables, and pictures. |
| Color Blindness: More Prevalent Among Males |
| Short article tells how disease evolved. |
| What's Color Blindness? |
| Though many think that color-blind means one does not see any color, this isn't true. Q & A for kids. |
| Medical Genetics - X-linked Recessive: Red-Green Color Blindness, Hemophilia A |
| Inheritance of the condition, and similar mechanism in hemophilia. |
| Color Vision |
| Presentation about normal vision. Includes spectra, eye anatomy and color response curves. |